In my view, this person must be immediately counseled to seek treatment and
suspended until such time as treatment is in effect. Your liability risk
exposure is nothing, compared to ruining the reputation of your museum (if
you can smell it, everyone else is smelling it also), and most importantly
enabling an obvious alcoholic to continue with that disease.

I find it hard to conceive that your concern is for legal liability and not
about the suffering of this obviously sick person. But, yes, you do have
legal liability risk exposure.
nburlakoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Kimberly Radtke &/or Keith Routley
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:45 AM
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Subject: drunk volunteer

I'm at a small art museum where we have one volunteer who daily helps open
up the museum. She occasionally arrives smelling of alcohol and seems mildly
intoxicated, but remains helpful, punctual and reliable She drives to and
from the museum. Personnel issues aside, I'm wondering if people have any
thoughts regarding what liability the museum might incur if she were in an
auto accident to/from the museum while intoxicated. Presumably the museum
would only be potentially liable if it became known that she was retained
despite a documented problem arriving intoxicated? Any thoughts? Cheers!

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